American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
ASGE issues guidelines on the role of endoscopy in the bariatric surgery patient
Published in Fitness and Wellness Business Week, August 13th, 2008
The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has issued guidelines on the role of endoscopy in the bariatric surgery patient. The rising prevalence of obesity in the United States and the success in surgical interventions led to a marked increase in the number of weight-loss surgeries performed in the U.S., from 13,365 in 1998 to 102,794 in 2003. The guidelines discuss endoscopy in the preoperative patient and the postoperative patient, and appear in the July issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the ASGE.
Endoscopy is a procedure that uses an endoscope, a thin, flexible tube with a light and a lens on...
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